Job Description:
Our client is a major international sportsbook brand with a fast-growing South African operation. As their trading footprint expands across retail and online channels, they are building a high-performance Trading team in Johannesburg — and theyre looking for an experienced Sports Trader to join the engine room of the business.
This is a real trading role, not a monitoring desk. You will be directly responsible for pricing, margins, exposure, risk, promotions, and market integrity across sportsbook, numbers, and gaming products in a live, high-volume environment.
If you understand how betting markets actually move — not just how they look on paper — this is where you belong.
The Role:
You will sit at the heart of the trading floor, controlling how the business prices sport, manages risk, and protects revenue across retail shops and online platforms.
This is a hands-on trading and risk role where you will actively shape:
- Market pricing and margin
- Liability and exposure
- Promotions and price boosts
- Customer betting behaviour
- Fraud, abuse and sharp action
- Product integrity and market confidence
You'll work closely with Trading, Marketing, Compliance, Operations and Retail to ensure the business trades profitably, safely, and competitively in a regulated environment.
What You Will Own:
Trading & Pricing
- Price sports and numbers markets to achieve margin and revenue targets
- Monitor pre-match and in-play markets to ensure accuracy, availability, and integrity
- Adjust prices based on market movements, liabilities, and competitor activity
- Produce daily retail coupons and fixture schedules for soccer and major events
Risk, Exposure & Market Control
- Monitor liabilities and exposure across retail and online channels
- Identify early money, sharp action, and abnormal betting patterns
- Enforce limits and restrictions in line with internal controls
- Protect the business from arbitrage, exploitation, and market abuse
Fraud & Integrity
- Detect suspicious betting behaviour, coordinated activity, and potential manipulation
- Maintain watchlists for high-risk and high-value customers
- Investigate irregular betting, unusual wins, or withdrawal patterns
- Escalate potential fraud or integrity issues
Promotions & Competitive Trading
- Create, manage and monitor price boosts and promotional offers
- Track how bonuses and offers perform against risk and margin
- Review bonus bets and withdrawals to ensure compliance and fair use
- Monitor competitor odds, fixtures, and offers to stay ahead
Reporting & Stakeholder Support
- Produce accurate daily and weekly trading and risk reports
- Support customer services, retail, and internal teams with trading queries
- Track event results and flag delays, errors, or anomalies
What Were Looking For:
You already understand how a sportsbook makes — and protects — money.
You bring:
- 3+ years experience in sports trading, fixed-odds betting, or risk management
- Strong knowledge of odds compilation, margins, and exposure management
- Experience identifying sharp action, suspicious betting, and abuse
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- High attention to detail in fast-moving live trading environments
- Strong knowledge of multiple sports, especially soccer
- Confidence making commercial trading decisions
- Solid Excel and reporting capability
- The ability to stay calm, precise, and professional under pressure
- Flexibility to work shifts in a 7-day trading operation
Why This Role Matters:
This is not a back-office admin role. You are directly responsible for revenue protection, pricing accuracy, and trading integrity.
Your decisions will impact:
- How profitable the sportsbook is
- How exposed the business becomes
- How competitive the brand is in the market
- How safe and compliant the operation remains
You will be trusted to run markets, manage risk, and protect the book.
If youre a trader who enjoys real responsibility, real data, and real commercial impact, this is where you step up.